“Are you implying we don’t do our job well enough, Miss Reed?”
She raises a brow in a cheeky manner. “Now what would give you that idea?”
I lick my bottom lip. “You’re mad that we haven’t caught the one responsible for your misery.” I smile. “It would help if you could tell us more about your situation, what you actually remember, and why you were there to begin with.”
She smiles back. “I don’t need to tell the cops anything I don’t want to. Why I was there is none of your business. But I’m glad you and your men are doing their best to solve crime, however hard it is.”
My eyes twitch.
I have never met a victim of a crime more unwilling to talk than this woman.
What is she hiding?
“And thank you so much for saving me,” she adds with a wink.
Something about her annoys me greatly.
It’s not the fact that she’s trying to get under my skin … but the fact that I can’t seem to fucking take my eyes off her.
I pull my business card from my pocket and hand it to her. “In case you change your mind.”
She reluctantly takes the card and reads the details before slipping it into her pocket.
“I won’t,” she says.
“That’s fine,” I reply, narrowing my eyes. “We’ll find out one way or another.”
Her pupils dilate and then sharpen within an instant.
But I noticed.
And it makes me wonder …
If we’ve been looking at this the wrong way, searching for the wrong guy.
“Have a great day, Miss Reed.”
I wink, and she walks off again, back to the safety of the crowd, while I mutter, “I’m sure we’ll see each other again real soon.”
Who knows.
Maybe we should be looking for a woman instead.
CHAPTER 16
Sunny
It’s a Saturday,and all the entrances to each of the main Spine Ridge campus buildings are guarded by cops, which is ludicrous if you ask me.
How are they going to stop a killer from murdering when they don’t even know where it happens?
And who’s going to classes on the weekends?
Besides, I could murder anyone, anytime, anywhere in the city, and they would never find out.
I have been killing people across this city and beyond for far longer than they can imagine, some even on these campus grounds. The only reason they found out is because I left these bodies on purpose.
Putting cops here, of all places, is like shooting at a flock of flying birds with a grain of rice. You’ll never hit the target.
